Coachella 2006
 

Well, it's happening again and the official line-up is out (though there may be a few additions when the posters go up) So far here's the lineup:

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Saturday, April 29th Depeche Mode, Franz Ferdinand, Sigur Ros, Common, Damian Marley, Atmosphere, Carl Cox, My Morning Jacket, Ladytron , Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Tosca, Cat Power, Animal Collective, HARD-fi, Derrick Carter, Devendra Banhart, She Wants Revenge, The Walkmen, The Juan Maclean, Audio Bullys, Imogen Heap, Lady Sovereign, Deerhoof, The Duke Spirit, Editors, stellastarr*, Lyrics Born, Matt Costa, The New Amsterdams, The Zutons, Platinum Piped Pipers, White Rose Movement, Chris Liberator, Colette, Joey Beltram, Hybrid, Wolfmother, The Like, Living Things, Nine Black Alps, The Section Quartet, Infadels, Youth Group, Shy FX & T Power, Infusion. Sunday, April 30th Tool, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Bloc Party, Paul Oakenfold, Scissor Sisters, Matisyahu, James Blunt, TV on the Radio, Sleater-Kinney , Mogwai, Coheed and Cambria, Gnarls Barkley, Coldcut, Phoenix, Digable Planets, Amadou & Mariam, Little Louie Vega, Mylo (DJ Set), Seu Jorge, Wolf Parade, The Go! Team, Kaskade, Metric, Art Brut, Dungen, The Dears, Jamie Lidell, The Magic Numbers, Los Amigos Invisibles, Jazzanova, Michael Mayer, Mates of State, Gilles Peterson, Gabriel & Dresden, The Subways, Minus the Bear, Be Your Own Pet, Giant Drag, Kristina Sky,The Octopus Project.

I'm still kind of lukewarm, but there are a lot of bands I don't know anything about yet. In the meantime we've got hotel ressies to take advantage of if we need to.

Ooh, Matisyahu. That'll be a short set since, based on radio play, he only has one song :rolleyes: (snarkiness aside, I do really want to see him and hear some other stuff).

Paul Oakenfold=huge yawn. He's the Blink-182 of electroinc music, I'll be avoiding that.

I recognize a lot of names from this year's KCRW CD packs (Seu Jorge, Jazzanova, Imogen Heap, Damian Marley). I know I listened to a bunch of those in picking my 5, but I'll have to go back and see which I want to see. Seu Jorge, by the way, is the artist who did the Portuguese song in Life Aquatic.

Other names that pop out are Franz Ferdinand, of course, Depeche Mode (but I won't miss someone else cool for that), Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Scissor Sisters (I think Jen will find somewhere else to be for that one).

Time to start browing iTunes again.

Well, I'm more excited about our hotel than I am the line up at the moment.

There are things I'm interested in and stuff I'd like to see, but nothing that makes me say "I HAVE to be there". Depeche Mode is a GIANT yawn for me (always has been) and, while I will love the Scissor Sisters, Matt Costa, Bloc Party, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Seu Jorge There's nothing that says to me "Don't Miss It". But, I have to trust the promoters in a ways. They always seem to turn me on to new music that I, in turn, love.....we'll see.

I could do with another oldie cool act (Roxy Music anyone). Here's hoping.

Yeah, for me last year it was only partially about the bands I already knew and liked. It was about the ones I didn't know that turned out to be awesome.

Yeah Roxy Music and the Buzzcocks were circulated in the rumour, either one would push me to be a bit more excited.

But, it's usually the "other" bands that stand out in Coachella - I liked Arcade Fire's CD allright, but after seeing them live, I became a fan.

Yup, same goes for Keen and Sloan, among others.

Hmm, I guess we'll have to get educated. Especially since we have a room booked.

It's funny, the only other time I've ever heard of 'Coachella' was in a Bugs Bunny cartoon. :)

Last week's free download on iTunes was "Cash Machine" by HARD-fi.


Greg, do you mean Keane? They were great openers for U2, as were Arcade Fire. Those kids are crazy!

I have enough trouble spelling real words. Band names you can forget about. Yes, I meant Keane.